§ Mr. MaplesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the deadline for sending an international police task force to Kosovo; and how many of the planned international police task force have arrived to Kosovo. [90130]
§ Mr. Tony LloydIt was agreed at the Friends of the UN Secretary-General for Kosovo meeting in New York on 30 June that the United Nations Mission in Kosovo should acquire the capacity to take over responsibility for policing from KFOR as soon as possible. As of 1 July, 2,400 police had been pledged to the United Nations, out of the total 3,110 required. The UN has already deployed an advance party of 39 police officers to Kosovo to establish a headquarters and to liaise with KFOR. It is expected that the main component of the UN Police Force will start to deploy from 17 July.
§ Mr. MaplesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many police officers from the UN mission in Bosnia have been deployed to Kosovo. [90131]
§ Mr. Tony LloydAs of 7 July, 37 police officers had been transferred from the International Police Task Force in Bosnia to the UN Police Force in Kosovo. A further 40 will follow soon.
§ Mr. MaplesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the deadline for(a) appointing the UN Secretary General's special representative to Kosovo and (b) appointing five regional administrators to Kosovo. [90129]
§ Mr. Tony LloydThe UN Secretary-General announced on 2 July the appointment of Bernard Kouchner as his Special Representative to head the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. He has also announced Kouchner's five deputies: Jack Covey as Principal Deputy, Dominique Vian as Deputy for Interim Civil Administration, Dennis McNamara as Deputy: Humanitarian Affairs, Daan Everts as Deputy: Institution Building and Joly Dixon as Deputy: Reconstruction.
§ Mr. MaplesTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the UK contribution to the civil police in Kosovo. [90132]
§ Mr. Tony LloydThe United Nations have requested 60 UK police officers for Kosovo. We have offered to provide these officers to recruit, to train and to monitor a civil police force for Kosovo. We are currently discussing with the United Nations and the OSCE what specific roles these officers might undertake.
The united Kingdom has already deployed 16 Scene of Crime experts to Kosovo to assist the International War Crimes Tribunal with their investigation of alleged atrocities there.
58W